CSS text in columns

I want to set up some text in 3 CSS columns so that it flows across the columns. I blieve this can be done, as I saw a description of it on a W3C forum but I didn't understand it! I need a 'columns for Dummies' version?!
Thanks
Stephen

I was intrigued, so I googled. You may be a bit ahead of the curve here ;) this article explains it well:
The CSS3 multi-column module
>The W3C multi-column module is a CSS level-three working draft, proposed by the W3C to extend the current CSS box model. The modules intent is to allow content to flow into multiple columns inside an element. It offers new CSS properties that let the designers specify in how many columns an element should be rendered. The browser takes care of formatting the text so that the columns are balanced.

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Organising text into columns using CSS?

Hello again guys,
Another day another problem.
This community has been really friendly and helpful so far with what I'm sure must appear to many of you to be really simply problems, so I'm hoping that you can bear with me and help me out again!
Basically, I'm designing my page using CSS, and I've come to a part where I would like to have 3 columns of text, of a fixed width, with a fixed gap in between. Using my very limited knowledge and experience, I inputted the code that I thought would work, but whenever I go to enter more text, it doesn't jump to a new line when it reaches the maximum width of the column, it carries on on the same line and pushes the rest of the text across.
How do I sort this out?
I can't actually upload my site until Monday, but I've included some screen below which I hope will help.
Thanks again guys.
Text in columns:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2s9vyhg.png
When I type some more, it doesn't stay in the column width:
http://i55.tinypic.com/dlno7b.png
The code that I thought would work:
http://i54.tinypic.com/yjoed.png
http://i56.tinypic.com/2dax46c.png

Hi Murray,
Apologies. I had made a mistake. I've got it working now. Thank you.
Another tiny thing, if you check out this screen:
http://i54.tinypic.com/elcep.png
you can see that the line starts right near the top, and goes all the way down to the bottom.
Is there some way to amend the code that you gave me to adjust the height of the line? I tried adjusting the size of the image but that didn't seem to have an effect?
Ideally, I would like to line at the top of the 'T' of 'This is a news story', and finish at the bottom of the 'M' of 'More'. That height.
Something else which has confused me. I have that 'More' link aligned to the right, and in my design view in DW it is so aligned, but then when I preview the page, it jumps to the left hand side of each column. The alignment seems to disappear when the page is 'live'?
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Hi Deepti,
Thanks a lot for the answer but the option that you have specified does not wrap the text. Instead it truncates the text being displayed and only the substring of the text which could be displayed in the given pixels is displayed.
I need to show the whole text wrapped (Meaning if the width of the column is not sufficient then the text goes into the next line).
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